Clause 6 - Making of order
Proceeds of Crime Bill
9:15 am
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield, Conservative)
My hon. Friend is right. We will have to wait with bated breath to hear what the Minister has to say about how the policy decisions were originally made and how the policy changes were subsequently made.
I return to the impact that the amendments would have. We have tackled the Minister of State about why the Scottish provisions were initially different. Will the Under-Secretary—or whichever of the two in the double act that I am dealing with this morning—say why there is such an objection to providing judicial discretion in the clause in England and Wales?
What is the Minister so worried about? What have his officials told him might happen if we were to insert the word ``may'' and remove the word ``must''?